After spending a day picking up trash along the highway or picking cotton I think the poor should be paid with sacks of potatoes, oatmeal, carrots, cabbage and portions of meat.
Give the poor charcoal filters to process their own drinking water with.
Instead of rewarding the poor for pooping out kids, force them to ask bleeding heart [White Guilt] liberals to pay for their innate lack of impulse control and lack of responsibility.